Medium Voice, Flute, Clarinet, Guitar, Drums

SKU: HL.14025132

Composed by Bo Holten. Music Sales America. 20th Century. Score. Music Sales #KP00315. Published by Music Sales (HL.14025132).

ISBN 9788759854242. Danish.

A beautiful and enjoyable set of Pastel Pictures written between 1985 and 1986 for Medium Voice, Flute, Clarinet, Guitar and Drums, by Bo Holten. He has carefully and effectively set a number of German pastoral poems to colourful music, including verses by Morike, Nietzsche, Heine and Hesse. This is the full score and includes the complete text for each of the ten poems.

Music teaching

SKU: LM.26660

Composed by Marguerite Labrousse. Method, studies. Score. Editions Henry Lemoine #26660. Published by Editions Henry Lemoine (LM.26660).

ISBN 9790230966603.

BEETHOVEN : Feuerfarb - BERLIOZ : La damnation de Faust (Le Roi de Thule) - BIZET : Pastel - BORODINE : Chez les autres - CHABRIER : Villanelle de petits canards - EXAUDET : Menuet - GOUNOD : Le medecin malgre lui (air de la bouteille) - GRANADOS : Amor y Odio - GRIEG : Erstes Begegnen - HAENDEL : Alcina - KOECHLIN : Duo a capella - MASSENET : Manon (1er acte, 3 voix) - MAXWELL-DAVIES : At the shore - MOUSSORGSKY : Sans soleil - RAMEAU : Dardanus (acte II, scene 2) - SCHUBERT : Der Schatzgruber - NEGRO SPIRITUAL : I got a home in-a-dat Rock.

By John Cacavas. Music for String Orchestra. Size 9x12 inches. Published by Hal Leonard.

SKU: CA.4039730

War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (God was not with us this time). German title: Postkarte (Meininger Pastell). Post card. 100 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 40.397/30. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4039730).

ISBN 9790007105686. Language: all languages. Illustrator: Gottlieb Friedrich Bach.

Pastel. Score available separately - see item CA.4039700.

SKU: CA.4036410

War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (God was not with us this time). German title: Postkarte (Boldoni, Nach 1886). Post card. 100 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 40.364/10. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4036410).

ISBN 9790007105280. Language: all languages. Illustrator: Giovanni Boldini.

Pastel drawing, 1886.

By Jeanine Yeager. Piano. Neil A. Kjos Piano Library. Level: Level 1. Music Book. Published by Neil A. Kjos Music Company.

SKU: HL.48185897

Composed by Jean Bouvard. Leduc. Classical. Softcover. Alphonse Leduc #AL29647. Published by Alphonse Leduc (HL.48185897).

For E flat (or B flat) saxophone and piano.

Concert Band - Grade 4

SKU: PE.TSGB010

Composed by Tyler S. Grant. Concert Band; MakeMusic Cloud; Performance Music Ensemble. Tyler S. Grant Music Works. Score and Part(s). Duration 7:00. Edition Peters #98-TSGB010. Published by Edition Peters (PE.TSGB010).

UPC: 038081584034.

Instrumental colors abound in this emotionally moving memorial piece, Solace in the Equinox by Tyler S. Grant. Impressionistic passages float in and out of varied instrumental combinations, creating sonic palettes of pastel colors and swirling shapes. Just as the fall equinox balances darkness and light, the music exhibits a harmonious balance between moments of quiet and delicate textures with contrasting fully scored statements of brightness and joy. (7:00).

Piano

SKU: HL.50511371

Composed by Zoltan Kodaly. 20th Century. EMB. Book [Softcover]. 4 pages. Editio Musica Budapest #Z866. Published by Editio Musica Budapest (HL.50511371).

ISBN 9790080008669. UPC: 073999587791. 7.75x11.0x0.046 inches.

The work written in 1907 was originally considered by the composer to be the first piece of op. 3 (finally instead of Ten Piano Pieces the Valsette and the Nine Piano Pieces were published separately). The tenderness and charm of pastel colours and mediterranean sounds are the characteristics of this composition, its melodies are constructed mostly from small third intervals.

SKU: CA.4038710

War Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit (God was not with us this time). German title: Postkarte (Michalek, 1891). Post card. 100 pages. Carus Verlag #CV 40.387/10. Published by Carus Verlag (CA.4038710).

ISBN 9790007105556. Language: all languages. Illustrator: Ludwig Michalek.

Pastel (Michalek, 1891). Score available separately - see item CA.4038700.

Chamber Music String Quartet

SKU: PR.164002720

Cassatt. Composed by Dan Welcher. Spiral and Saddle. Premiere: Cassatt Quartet, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL. Contemporary. Set of Score and Parts. With Standard notation. Composed 2007. WRT11142. 52+16+16+16+16 pages. Duration 24 minutes. Theodore Presser Company #164-00272. Published by Theodore Presser Company (PR.164002720).

UPC: 680160573042. 8.5 x 11 inches.

My third quartet is laid out in a three-movement structure, with each movement based on an early, middle, and late work of the great American impressionist painter Mary Cassatt. Although the movements are separate, with full-stop endings, the music is connected by a common scale-form, derived from the name MARY CASSATT, and by a recurring theme that introduces all three movements. I see this theme as Mary's Theme, a personality that stays intact while undergoing gradual change.   I The Bacchante (1876) [Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]   The painting shows a young girl of Italian or Spanish origin, playing a small pair of cymbals. Since Cassatt was trying very hard to fit in at the French Academy at the time, she painted a lot of these subjects, which were considered typical and universal. The style of the painting doesn't yet show Cassatt's originality, except perhaps for certain details in the face. Accordingly the music for this movement is Spanish/Italian, in a similar period-style but using the musical signature described above. The music begins with Mary's Theme, ruminative and slow, then abruptly changes to an alla Spagnola-type fast 3/4 - 6/8 meter. It evokes the Spanish-influenced music of Ravel and Falla.   Midway through, there's an accompanied recitative for the viola, which figures large in this particular movement, then back to a truncated recapitulation of the fast music. The overall feeling is of a well-made, rather conventional movement in a contemporary Spanish/Italian style. Cassatt's painting, too, is rather conventional.   II At the Opera (1880) [Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts]   This painting is one of Cassatt's most well known works, and it hangs in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The painting shows a woman alone in a box at the opera house, completely dressed (including gloves) and looking through opera glasses at someone or something that is NOT on the stage. Across the auditorium from her, but exactly at eye level, is a gentleman with opera glasses intently watching her - though it is not him that she's looking at. It's an intriguing picture.   This movement is far less conventional than the first movement, as the painting is far less conventional. The music begins with a rapid, Shostakovich-type mini-overture lasting less than a minute, based on Mary's Theme. My conjecture is that the woman in the painting has arrived late to the opera, busily stumbling into her box. What happens next is a kind of collage, a kind of surrealistic overlaying of two different elements: the foreground music, at first is a direct quotation of Soldier's Chorus from Gounod's FAUST (an opera Cassatt would certainly have heard in the brand-new Paris Opera House at that time), played by Violin II, Viola, and Cello. This music is played sul ponticello in the melody and col legno in the marching accompaniment. On top of this, the first violin hovers at first on a high harmonic, then descends into a slow melody, completely separate from the Gounod. It's as if the woman in the painting is hearing the opera onstage but is not really interested in it. Then the cello joins the first violin in a kind of love-duet (just the two of them, at first). This music isn't at all Gounod-derived; it's entirely from the same scale patterns as the first movement and derives from Mary's Theme and its scale. The music stays in a kind of dichotomy feeling, usually three-against-one, until the end of the movement, when another Gounod melody, Valentin's aria Avant de quitter ce lieux reappears in a kind of coda for all four players. It ends atmospherically and emotionally disconnected, however. The overall feeling is a kind of schizophrenic, opera-inspired dream.   III Young Woman in Green, Outdoors in the Sun (1909) [Worcester Art Museum, Massachusetts]   The painting, one of Cassatt's last, is very simple: just a figure, looking sideways out of the picture. The colors are pastel and yet bold - and the woman is likewise very self-assured and not in the least demure. It is eight minutes long, and is all about melody - three melodies, to be exact (Young Woman, Green, and Sunlight). No angst, no choppy rhythms, just ever-unfolding melody and lush harmonies. I quote one other French composer here, too: Debussy's song Green, from Ariettes Oubliees. 1909 would have been Debussy's heyday in Paris, and it makes perfect sense musically as well as visually to do this.   Mary Cassatt lived her last several years in near-total blindness, and as she lost visual acuity, her work became less sharply defined - something akin to late water lilies of Monet, who suffered similar vision loss. My idea of making this movement entirely melodic was compounded by having each of the three melodies appear twice, once in a pure form, and the second time in a more diffuse setting. This makes an interesting two ways form: A-B-C-A1-B1-C1.   String Quartet No.3 (Cassatt) is dedicated, with great affection and respect, to the Cassatt String Quartet, whose members have dedicated themselves in large measure to the furthering of the contemporary repertoire for quartet.

Orchestra (Study Score)

SKU: HL.132243

Chopin National Edition. Composed by Frederic Chopin. Edited by Jan Ekier and Pawel Kaminski. PWM. Classical. Study Score. Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne #51600913. Published by Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne (HL.132243).

UPC: 884088970772.

Piano concertos combine two elements: pure playing and full poetic expression. Virtuosity and romance. Pianistic brilliance, educated in the works in the stile brillant, brought to perfection, but at the same time - a farewell. Both are forms of direct expression of the personality of the composer, which showed itself in them for the first time with so much strength and is manifested in a group of characteristics of forming Chopin's individual style. Piano Concerto in F minor In terms of size, substantially smaller than the E minor concerto and also a different kind of expression: more lyrical, drawn in delicate pastel colours. Especially famous is the second movement, the Larghetto, which Chopin wrote under the inspiration of his first love. Critical source-edition edited by Jan Ekier and Pawel Kaminski based on manuscripts, copies approved by Chopin himself, and first editions. Its purpose is to present the works of Chopin in authentic form.